The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life

Title: The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life

Author: Tara Altebrando

ISBN: null

Page: 320

Format: Kindle Edition

The Best Night of Your Pathetic Life An all day scavenger hunt in the name of eternal small town glory With only a week until graduation there s one last thing Mary and her friends must do together participate in the Oyster Point High O

An all day scavenger hunt in the name of eternal small town glory With only a week until graduation, there s one last thing Mary and her friends must do together participate in the Oyster Point High Official Unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt And Mary is determined to win Mary lost her spot at Georgetown to self professed it bully Pete Lembo, and she s not about toAn all day scavenger hunt in the name of eternal small town glory With only a week until graduation, there s one last thing Mary and her friends must do together participate in the Oyster Point High Official Unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt And Mary is determined to win Mary lost her spot at Georgetown to self professed it bully Pete Lembo, and she s not about to lose again But everyone is racing for the finish line with complicated motives, and the team s all night adventure becomes all night drama as shifting alliances, flared tempers, and crushing crushes take over As the items and points pile up, Mary and her team must reinvent their strategy and themselves in order to win

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The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Lifeis by no means The Best Book You’ve Ever Read in Your (Pathetic) Life, but it may just be the most original. This was a novel that was brimming with unique flavor, ideas, and creativity which I absolutely adored. While I wish that Altebrando had managed to take more command of her narration and further develop the more serious and deep aspects of this novel, I can’t deny that it was funny, realistic, and a novel that I simply could not put down till I ha [...]

This book just Oh this book. I didn't like anyone. Seriously, I hated them all. Mary is crazy and obsessed with Carson, who's in love with Winter, who's also in love with Carson, while Patrick is in love with Mary, who isn't in love with Patrick, and Dez is just kind of in love with himself. That's what this book was about. It wasn't about an epic scavenger hunt that changed them forever, it was about some stupid fucked up love square with a little bit of scavenger thrown in to keep things inter [...]

Wow, this book.It had a really awesome premise and scavenger hunts are always fun to read about. But this one was just ugh! I hated the main character and the supporting characters were all annoying, too. Okay, the book is basically about Mary, a high school senior who's kind of a nerd and wants to win the Senior Scavenger Hunt in order to stick it to those who have bullied her. The book would have been really great if it had simply stuck to this and built on the scavenger hunt. However, a love [...]

¡Ayúdame! How much I loved this book. What's kind of crazy is how there were a few moments of "WAKE UP MARY!" sprinkled in and I still loved it. I won't ruin it for anyone but honestly, scavenger hunts have never been more fun in a book. If you're looking for a movieScavenger Hunt with Arnold. Bless his heart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in one of his first real movies. Anyway, focus Eric, the book is fun. I like how it doesn't matter about who's smart or quicker, it's really about loving life (24/ [...]

2.5 STARSOn the Saturday before the last week of senior year, Mary and her friends compete in an unofficial scavenger hunt for the coveted prize of Yeti (and the glory of beating their friends and frenemies). Over the next twelve hours crushes will be revealed (and crushed), friendships will be pushed to the brink and laws will be bent (okay, maybe broken).Over the past year, I’ve become a big Tara Altebrando fan. THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR (PATHETIC)LIFE is my least favorite of her young adult no [...]

I absolutely loved the first scavenger hunt in this story. Despite my lameness at them, I think scavenger hunts are pretty fantastic; mostly, I like the idea of them because it means clues and adventures and hauling weird crap around. I was excited from the moment Mary and her team got their list; I mentally went through all the items on the list that currently could be found at my house. I kind of wanted to go home and get them out, just because (I'm crazy)While high school was never like Mary' [...]

The Best Night Of Your (Pathetic) Life was not quite what I expected. From the cover, title, and summary I expected a light, fun read. It definitely was a fun read but not quite as light as I expected. I was pleasantly surprised to find a mix of light and fun, and serious and contemplative between these pages. Mary was the best thing about this book and the worst thing. She was such an easy character to relate to because she was far from perfect. She was not confident about herself or her dreams [...]

2 starsThis review can also be found on my blog Blue-Eyed BibliophileWhen you read the summary, it sounds like it's going to be a fun, summery read with a super creative and original plot. But it's not. It's about a girl named Mary who has a horrible attitude about everything and cares about all the wrong things and throughout the book you have to suffer through her whines and complaints about what she has and doesn't have. Unfortunately, this book was ruined because we have to read it through M [...]

Mary is tired of being in the backseat of her own life. And more than anything, she’s tired of being second best. That’s why she’s determined to win the Oyster Point High Official Unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt: not only is it her last chance to leave her mark at school, but there’s no way that she’s going to let bully Jake Barbone come out on top again. But as the competition heats up, Mary’s team is no longer sure that they’re cut out for all of it, especially when every l [...]

Was a bit disappointed with this, as I've liked the other books I've read by this author, and it's both a fun title and great idea. It did have a lot of fun things in it - especially the scavenger hunt itself , and the kids who'd won the previous year, who set the challenge. Little things (and one rather major one) kept bouncing me out of it though - like Mary's not having a clue what "first-world problems" meant. The major one was the way Mary's crush on Cameron was handled - at points it seeme [...]

I had high hopes going into this book considering I was obsessed with Dreamland Social Club. SADLY I WAS LET DOWN. I was iffy about this book from the beginning but I felt I owed it to the author.Here we go.Okay first of all the description on the jacket is in no way an accurate representation of the novel. This was NOT a book about "coming-of-age" or "crushing-crushes" it was more like "pointless-plot" and "psycho-love triangles".One of the main things that pissed me off was the lack of depth e [...]

There was a lot I liked about this book, and there was a lot that I found annoying. I dunno. I mean, I would definitely be down for participating in an epic night of scavenger hunting shenanigans. And I do think that one of the book's greatest strengths is that it manages to convey the sense of conflict and craziness that comes with graduating. I understand the whole "leaving your mark" mentality. But I'm not sure I buy into the whole "if we win the scavenger hunt, that'll really show Barbone an [...]

Verdict: Non-stop fun. While technically not a “summer” novel, it sure feels like one!Perfect for: People who have had relationship drama. People who secretly like watching other peoples’ relationship drama (who doesn’t?). People who love lists and scavenger hunts (who doesn’t????)Summary: Just before Senior graduation Mary and her friends Patrick, Dez, and Winter decide that they are tired of being semi-nobodies and that they will prove themselves by winning the annual end-of-year Sen [...]

I cannot believe how minuscule the ratings are for this book. I mean, COME ON. The book was fucking amazing. It was inspirational, it was fun. Mary may not be getting into Georgetown and Burke might be better than what we think of and Mary might be kind of a bitch and Mary might not be ending up with anyone BUT SERIOUSLY. This is the best book I've read in ages! I did not expect it actually. I took a break reading rock star romances and new adult dramas to make way for YA (because I read all gen [...]

I would never claim that this is one of the greatest YA books ever, but wow, I enjoyed it! The scavenger hunt base is a great way to propel the story, and I loved that all the drama, tension, and angst of high school is explored in one action-filled day. I was instantly transported back to high school and all the feelings that are intrinsic to that period as I listed to this, and it made me overwhelming nostalgic for the optimism, fears, and hopes for the future that graduating seniors feel. At [...]

This book made me want to go on a scavenger hunt, and what a complicated scavenger hunt it was. This was just a fun light read, with a little teenage angst mixed in. Of course there was a complicated love triangle/Square, that left me wondering why any of these girls ever found that boy attractive, but fortunately I think they also came to that conclusion was about living in the moment, enjoying every day, and well just plain old growing up.

What a great, fun, quick read! I loved the whole idea of this book, it being based behind a scavenger hunt. What a fun idea! I love reading the adventure the gang had. Of course there is girl drama along the way, but what high schooler doesn't have a little bit of drama in their life? The only downfall I had to this book was I did feel a huge sense of character development in it and by the end I was wondering, well what now? If your looking for a quick, fun read defiantly pick this book up!

I have never hated a heroine like I have Mary Gilhooley-- and that includes Zoey Redbird from House of Night.I wanted a fun, high-speed scavenger hunt with thrills and hilarity. I didn't really get it. I got a lot of whining instead.

I gave this book 3 stars because I absolutely love the whole scavenger hunt thing and I like books about road trips. While this wasn’t a road trip book per say, it did involve a group of friends driving around town together in the car so it still had that "this is the end of high school let’s make something of it!” vibe. It was a page turner and a super short read that you could do in one sitting if you want.But all good books have to have some problems. First issue: the characters. I can [...]

2 stars seems a little harsh for this 2.5 star book but here GR 2 stars means It was ok and 3 stars means I liked it and overall I really thought this book was ok.Maybe I really am getting too old for YA because I feel like the characters in all the YA books I'm reading these days are these cringe-worthy hipsters. Maybe I just have to accept it? I really don't like them as protagonist though. It's sad There was one guy dressed with rainbow colored suspenders, high socks, a bowtie and I was just [...]

This book was defiantly NOT the best book you will ever read in your (pathetic) life. The plot is very dull and not very suspenseful. I had to read this book in english and compare it to Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. This book didn't relate very much to it due to the fact that the language in the two books are extremely different. Overall this book is fairly boring to read, I think the author could have done a lot better giving you a path into the main character, Mary's, mind.

What a delightful read! I couldn't put it down once I started it. The story covered a day of adventure (scavenger hunting), blended with end-of-high-school memories, anxieties, and hopeful daydreams of the future.